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How lucky am I?
Two non-Secret Santa gifts arrived for me today.

One in the morning, one in the afternoon.

The first one was there waiting for me when I got up.
I was excited as always, but by the time I got downstairs I had more or less convinced myself it was an item from eBay that I ordered on Mum's behalf (a novelty gift for my neice on Boxing Day - I'll post about it elsewhere when it arrives).

But.... but... It came in a Zazzle box. So I had an inkling it might be Cellar related. I checked the postcode, and it was one I recognised from writing out my Christmas cards.

On opening I found a Christmas cracker!
Yay! More than that, it was wrapped in glorious cat paper!

Inside were a pair of glorious long, pink, hand-knitted, fingerless mittens! Really my kinda thing. It confirmed my non-secret santa (and as she says, not intended to be secret either) was. I know a mad knitter from Scotland you see, so all the clues were in place.

Funnily enough, the Diz cat was madly curious about them. He had a good old sniff (before I knocked him off the table) and tried to bite my wrist when I had them on. This is out of character for him - I've come home before when cats have been sat on my lap, or dogs have been all over me and he hasn't batted an eyelid. Perhaps it's something to do with the yarn? Anyway, he enjoys them too.

Many thanks to the talented not secret not santa.

Glad you like them SG!

Good haul SG !!

Pretty. And a perfect color for you, SG.

strawberry mittens for the Strawberry (co) Queen!!!

very nice limey! I agree. They are so SG.

Everyone's presents were so fun to see. :santa:
thanks for sharing the joy

My box from J&J was similar to Limey's but NON Secret Santa in my case.

I'd just like to point out that everything in my box will be used and appreciated. EVERYTHING!

The box itself is being used by Dad - he's taken all our odd glasses out of the cupboards for Christmas. This means only matching sets remain, and they are all easier to get to because there is more space. J&J's box is currently in the shed being used for this purpose.

The Walmart carrier bags partially used as packing went round to Grandad, who uses that size in his kitchen bin. His carers empty it every day for him, so it's not economical for him to buy binliners. Anyway, the most that's ever in there is a toilet roll tube and maybe some scrapings of leftover porridge!

The newspaper/ magazines/ coupon sheets have all been pored over by me & Mum. Mum is now sold on the idea of a holiday in OBX. It's unlikely to become a reality, but as she says, "I can dream!" We're both big seafood fans, and were drooling over the location and menus (and prices!) of the restaurants and take-aways.

The tissue paper is going to be reused to wrap the token gifts my family are getting this year.

My haul was:
2 types pancake mix
Real maple syrup
Hot Sauce
Chocolate pretzels (that I had to eat myself because the 'rents found the sweet/ savoury overlap too odd)
Soup mix
Personalised post-its
A Cherry Hill Nissan t-shirt (which confuses MUm because she thinks it's personalised)
And lots of interesting reading as packaging.

We have already started on the pancakes and maple syrup.
They made a very filling lunch, and tomorrow we are having them again. Once more, this time with bacon.

Thanks guys, you're amazing.

Merry Xmas SG! I had as much fun with the packaging as with the stuff inside just because I knew you'd check it all out. I wish I'd remembered the local take out menus I'd been saving up...

let's have a pic of you in that Tshirt, please!

and Merry Merry!

Good Haul SG !!!!

I had Limey's gloves on too, but it blew my tiny brain trying to get me, my boob AND my hand in the same shot!

fix'd that for you...


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